Belarus
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NATO: ‘Empty threats’
2 April 2013811PresseuropPolska The Times -
Lithuania: The Belarussians are coming
16 January 201386 Veidas Vilnius -
Ukraine: Slowly leaving the Soviet universe
26 October 20121065 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Lithuania-Belarus: The new Iron Curtain
25 October 20122381 15min Vilnius -
Belarus: Alexander Lukashenko: “You’re democratic bandits”
23 October 201222717 The Independent London -
Belarus: Voyage to the heart of Europe’s “grey zone”
17 October 20121219 Timpul Chisinau -
Profile: Bare breasts, heads high
20 September 20122039 Libération Paris -
Belarus: Bear-faced cheek
15 August 201234 Hufvudstadsbladet Helsinki -
Olympic Games: And the winner is...
14 August 201247 L’Echo Brussels -
Belarus: Freed activist warns EU against concessions
17 April 201233PresseuropThe Independent -
Belarus: Lukashenko’s friends in Brussels
20 March 20121174 EUobserver.com Brussels -
The front page: 19 March 2012
19 March 201230PresseuropLibération, Gazeta Wyborcza, The Irish Times & 4 others -
EU-Belarus: Minsk triggers diplomatic war
29 February 201231PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
EU-Belarus: Slovenia uses EU veto for €150 million
27 February 2012505PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Azarenka’s win, Lukashenko’s Victoria
1 February 201257 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Editorial: Our neighbour Putin
2 December 201164Presseurop -
The front page: 25 November 2011
25 November 201119Presseurop -
Eastern Partnership: Summit fails to tackle big issues
3 October 2011263PresseuropPresseurop -
Eastern Partnership: The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111061 Polityka Warsaw -
Belarus: Europe’s banks help bail-out Lukashenko
29 August 20111PresseuropThe Independent -
INTERVIEW: Paolo Rumiz: “The heart of Europe beats in the East”
5 August 2011PresseuropBlog -
Eastern Partnership: A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011147 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Belarus: Free Poczobut to keep the struggle alive
6 July 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Let no-one laugh in Lukashenko's madhouse
1 July 20113192 La Repubblica Rome -
Belarus: Polish journalist Poczobut's trial begins
14 June 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Iryna Vidanava - the regime is trying to restrict us even more
3 June 2011PresseuropBlog -
Political fiction: Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20112467 Die Welt Berlin -
Diplomacy: 5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 201128PresseuropEl País -
Belarus : Lukashenko takes opposition “hostages”
16 May 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Europe speaks up for Poczobut
13 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Lithuania: Demonstrating against the nuclear spectre
27 April 20111PresseuropLietuvos Rytas -
Belarus: Investment starved Minsk totters
19 April 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Minsk blast is "gift from abroad"
12 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Belarus: Croesus from Minsk
4 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Belarus: Polish Lukashenko critic faces jail
29 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Nuclear energy: Chernobyl to Fukushima - media gets it wrong
17 March 2011104 Postimees Tallinn -
Belarus: International campaign against Lukaschenko
9 March 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Belarus: Lukashenko, our own merciless dictator
8 March 20113553 The Independent London -
Belarus: Last European dictator torturing opponents
1 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
EU-Belarus: Minsk tries to bargain with Brussels
31 January 2011211PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
EU and Tunisia: Give Ben Ali the Lukashenko treatment
14 January 2011621 El País Madrid -
Belarus: Lukashenko's secret services crush opposition
21 December 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Belarus : Drop Lukashenko, not his people
20 December 201054 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Politics: 2011 - the year of Central Europe
15 November 2010Jyllands-Posten Aarhus -
EU-Belarus: EU bows to Europe’s last dictator
17 August 201020 Respekt Prague -
Poland/Belarus: Lukashenko cracks down on Poles
16 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics: United, but not with Europe
9 February 2010192 Wprost Warsaw -
Visions of Europe (3): Europe 2034
1 January 201033 Fokus Stockholm -
Editorial: All quiet on the Eastern front
11 December 2009Presseurop -
Belarus: A university in exile
31 July 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris
Hotels, shops and spas are all profiting from wealthy clients but also from the middle classes coming from the other side of the Belarus border. 
The October 28 general election is expected to confirm President Yanukovych’s power and the need for renewal of what remains of the Orange revolution. But in the long term, the country’s enduring crisis will lead to some form of normality, argues a Ukrainian journalist. 
In the Soviet era, when Lithuania and Belarus were both part of the USSR, there were several villages spanning a border that existed only on paper. Today, crossing from one side to the other has become a nightmare. 
The President of Belarus has made the former Soviet state a pariah nation. In an rare interview, he assures Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the British daily The Independent, that his people prefer security to freedom. 
When a Moldovan visits Belarus, “the last true dictatorship at the heart of Europe”, a comparison with the Soviet era is inevitable. And yet the people of Belarus look towards Europe as much as they look towards Moscow. 
The women of the Femen association, noted for their bare-breasted feminist demonstrations, are the best-known activists in Ukraine. But some, such as Inna Shevchenko, have been pressured into leaving the country. Now settled in Paris, they have opened a training centre in order to instruct followers from the world over. 
Even as President Alexander Lukashenko becomes increasingly cruel — with two men recently executed for the 2011 bombing in the Minsk metro — the EU capital is seeing an unprecedented level of lobbying on his behalf, reports the EUobserver. 
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project. 
On the occasion of the Belarusian Independence Day celebrations on 3 July, anyone who dares to applaud Alexander Lukashenko risks being sent to jail. The dictator’s regime, which is in a desperate situation, is well aware that irony is the only weapon left to its opponents. 
Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south 
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
While Europe's eyes are on Middle East revolutions, a dictator in the east quietly crushes his opposition. But voices are beginning to make themselves heard. 
In view of the crackdown in Tunisia, the EU ought to apply the same policy of “smart sanctions” that had some sway on Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus back in 2006, urges political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca. 
The Belarusian president is set to serve a fourth term after what seems to be another rigged election. Nonetheless, the West should not turn its back on its eastern neighbour, argues Rzeczpospolita. 
In general, Western Europeans, and the Danes in particular, cling to negative stereotypes of fellow EU citizens fromthe former Eastern bloc. Hungary and Poland, however, at the helm of Europe in 2011 are likelier to make a bigger splash than provincial Denmark when it takes over the EU presidency in 2012. 
With little or no progress toward democracy in Belarus, Brussels has shelved its decade-long campaign of sanctions against the country's autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenko, and decided to talk directly to him
The good news is that from Asia to the Americas, an increasing number of countries are coming together to create unions inspired by the EU. And the bad news? In the long term these entities may overshadow the EU on the world stage, worries Polish weekly Wprost. 
Swedish essayist Kjell Albin Abrahamsson imagines that in 25 years every European country will be in the EU – except Turkey. Armed with a common energy policy and, at long last, a single voice – the EU will take the helm in international diplomacy. 
After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk's European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future.